ISDS Case Map
corporate interests
A major South Korean business lobby said Sunday it has convened a meeting in Los Angeles with U.S. business leaders to push for the prompt ratification of a Seoul-Washington free trade deal.
The National Pork Producers Council is focusing most of its trade agreement lobbying efforts on re-establishing markets in China and Russia, says the council's Nick Giordano.
"You're talking about a billion people that we largely don't export anything to now," Meat and Wool New Zealand chairman Mike Petersen said
Frustrated by the failure of the Lisbon Agenda, big business has stepped in to force Brussels and governments across Europe to deliver on political promises designed to improve Europe's competitiveness in the face of mounting challenges from climate change, an ageing population and Asian rivals.
US businesses in Malaysia said a broader trade pact like the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement will provide better results than the stalled US-Malaysia free trade agreement (FTA) talks.
Latin America business leaders and experts are urging President Barack Obama to ask Congress to ratify pending free trade agreements with Colombia and Panama after his State of the Union speech Wednesday pledged to strengthen ties with those countries.
Dhanin Chearavanont, chairman of the Thailand's conglomerate Charoen Pokphand (CP) Group, saya Thailand is gaining more from the FTA than China.
Asean's zero-tariff implementation this year has created great investment opportunities between Thailand's biggest agro-conglomerate, the Charoen Pokphand Group, and Chinese investors with billions of US dollars to be spent on a range of projects.
“TPP is about re-establishing the role of the US in the Asian region,” Calman Cohen, president of the Washington-based Emergency Committee for American Trade, told reporters Dec. 11. “If they get it right, it can be a real shot in the arm.”
The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KADIN) is urging the government to follow up the free trade agreement with the European Union as one of ways to expand market to the region.
